Poetry! I do occasionally write it, though it's hard to write anything good. Most people have had horrid experiences with poetry, mostly from teachers telling them they suck. Or saying that their interpretation is wrong... which I always found dumb. An interpretation is... well... an interpretation. So really there is no wrong answer unless it's clear that you're just bullshitting. Anyways, whatever the reason, I think poetry has a bad rap. (In fact, bad rap started out as bad poetry, but I digress). Some of it sucks, but some of it's pretty good. To me, a sucky poem is one that could be written by a 1st grader with ADD. Something along the lines of:
Scratching dogs
on my door
bring sparkles
into my cocoa puffs
at midnight
sleep.
Hmmm... yes. Not so much. Unfortunately, some of us write and write and work super hard on a piece of poetry-ness for hours and it ends up looking like we chose random words out of a dictionary and crammed them into some flimsy structure we try to pass off as prose. Which, actually, come to think of it, might be fun... Anyway, if you try and tell me that you hate all of it, that it's stupid and pointless (much like geometry or Aqua Teen Hunger Force), or that it's only written by overly sensitive metrosexuals who have mommy issues, then I would like to:
A) smack you and B) remind you that your favorite song lyrics are freaking poetry. So shush. On that note, like it or not, here's one I wrote:
Walk away and see
the years gone by so fast.
Not alone but without.
Love comes and goes
til one day a memory
returns, somehow.
How I remember, and
slightly not.
Still there, alive
still breathing somehow
living in me, around me
this memory
this ghost
strange to be here
after all these years
and nearly forgetting
what I want to remember.
I don't think it's so bad, but what do I know? Just for fun, what's your interpretation? Oh wait, don't bother. You're wrong anyways.
I hate being wrong
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